Research to Classroom: Centralizing DEIJ Teaching Tools in Clinical Psychology Journals

APS 295996
Administered in: College of the Liberal Arts

Abstract:

High-quality training in diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice (DEIJ) is crucial for preparing clinical psychology graduate students to work effectively with diverse populations in clinical and research settings. While DEIJ-focused research has increased substantially in recent years, barriers to integrating this research into clinical psychology training persist. The proposed project addresses this implementation gap by developing and testing a pedagogically-informed structure to help educators incorporate DEIJ research into their teaching. First, we will develop instructions that include best practices, examples, and easily adaptable templates to guide authors in creating high-quality teaching guides for their published DEIJ-related work. This process of developing and refining teaching guide instructions will be informed by feedback from an advisory board of key stakeholders, including authors, editors, students, and educators. Second, through an established partnership with the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (JCCAP), we will pilot a sustainable framework for embedding these teaching guides within the journal infrastructure. We will test the system with authors of 10 recent DEIJ-focused articles and gather feedback on its feasibility and acceptability from these authors, as well as from instructors who use the teaching guides and from graduate students in their courses. After the pilot, we will create and disseminate an informational report detailing our approach to inform the establishment of similar systems in other psychology journals. In the final months of the project, we will engage with journal editors of other leading clinical psychology journals to gauge interest in adopting our new teaching-guide system. To our knowledge, this project represents the first effort to centralize the development and dissemination of teaching guides for DEIJ-focused research within the publishing process, offering an innovative and scalable solution to improve multicultural competency and cultural humility in our next generation of clinical psychologists.